Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 26 March 1859, CO 305:12, no. 3166, 158.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (2).
Hammond requests information for the French Ambassador on the fate of Jean Baptiste Massenot at Vancouver Island.
Included in this document is Elliot to Hammond, 31 March 1859, stating Douglas had been instructed to procure the information requested; a draft from Lytton to Douglas, No. 40, 1 April 1859; and Pélissier, French Ambassador, to Malmesbury, Foreign Office, 23 March 1859, requesting assistance in procuring information about Jean Baptiste Massenot, who went to Victoria from California in June of 1858.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
26 March 1859
I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you the
accompanying Copy of a note from the French Ambassador at this Court,
requesting that he may be furnished with information as to the fate
of a French Subject named Jean Baptiste Massenot, who
who is stated to
have arrived at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, in June last; and I am
to request that you will move Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton to
take the necessary steps to procure the information required by the
Duc de Malakoff.
who is stated to
have arrived at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, in June last; and I am
to request that you will move Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton to
take the necessary steps to procure the information required by the
Duc de Malakoff.
Other documents included in the file
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Pélissier, French Ambassador, to Malmesbury, Foreign Office,
23 March 1859, requesting assistance in procuring information about
Jean Baptiste Massenot, who went to Victoria from California in June
of 1858 (in French).